We're an open writing competition that is dedicated to finding and encouraging the most promising new writers from across the world. Each year the judges award over £18,000 in prize money for your best submissions in poetry, short stories, flash fiction and first novels. The prize was founded in 1973, in a small town in Dorset, UK, by Peggy Chapman-Andrews.

All entries submitted can be on any subject, and written in any style or form. Entries must be in English.